360-Degree Display

It is fun to watch technology strive to create the future technologies imagined in the science-fiction of the 1980's. Star Wars, Star Trek and many other science-fiction shows demonstrated many technologies that seemed great, but that were well out of reach for the technology of the day. Many of these technologies are starting to be developed. The 3-D holograms of the science-fiction world have started to be developed. Sony has unveiled the first display that has a 360 degree viewing angle in which you can see an object in full 3-D. Unlike other attempts at 3-D displays, with this display there is no need to wear special glasses to see the image. Although a device like this may not be the best type of screen to place in the movie theater, it has the potential to be useful in many other situations.